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Nutrition Facts labels have a complicated legacy – a historian explains the science and politics of translating food into information
Jul 22 2024
By Xaq Frohlich, author of From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information AgeThis post was originally published on The Conversation.The Nutrition Facts label, that black and white information box found on nearly every packaged food product in the U.S. since 1994, has rece
Q&A with Julie Guthman, author of The Problem with Solutions
Jul 17 2024
Why has Silicon Valley become the model for addressing today's myriad social and ecological crises? With this book, Julie Guthman digs into the impoverished solutions for food and agriculture currently emerging from Silicon Valley, urging us to stop trying to fix our broken food system through finit
Labeling “Healthy” Food
Nov 21 2023
Xaq Frohlich, author of FROM LABEL TO TABLE, explores what it means to label food "healthy".
Q&A with Merry (Corky) White & Benjamin Wurgaft
Oct 17 2023
Wurgaft and White—son and mother—make delightful company as they guide us through everything from the birth of agriculture to the lamination in a croissant in modern-day Tokyo.From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating introduces readers to
Q&A with Edward F. Fischer, author of Making Better Coffee
Sep 15 2022
Edward Fischer. Source: Vanderbilt University/Steve GreenAn anthropologist uncovers how "great coffee" depends not just on taste, but also on a complex system of values worked out among farmers, roasters, and consumers.What justifies the steep prices commanded by small-batch, high-end Third
Editor Spotlight: Meet Kate Marshall, Senior Editor of Anthropology, Food Studies, Latin American Studies
May 21 2021
Kate MarshallAs part of our ongoing Editor Spotlight Series, we interviewed UC Press Editor Kate Marshall about her approach to acquiring in the fields of Anthropology, Food Studies, and Latin American Studies, and what drew her to those areas. Kate also explains her career trajectory as an edit
Topological Suppositions
Jul 20 2019
excerpted from Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry by Julie GuthmanThe appearance of Fusarium and Macrophomina in California’s strawberry fields, where they had supposedly never been before, returns me to questions about how these fungi came into